26.1979, Calls: English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Amerindian Pidgin, Athapaskan, Semitic, General Ling, Phonetics, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Brazil

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1979. Mon Apr 13 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1979, Calls: English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Amerindian Pidgin, Athapaskan, Semitic, General Ling, Phonetics, Pragmatics, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Brazil

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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 23:42:23
From: Heliana Mello [heliana.mello at gmail.com]
Subject: IX LABLITA and IV LEEL International Workshop

Full Title: IX LABLITA and IV LEEL International Workshop 

Date: 03-Aug-2015 - 07-Aug-2015
Location: Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil 
Contact Person: Heliana Mello
Meeting Email: lablita.leel at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.letras.ufmg.br/ixlablitaandivleel/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Phonetics; Pragmatics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Hebrew (heb)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Japanese (jpn)
                     Portuguese (por)
                     Russian (rus)

Language Family(ies): Amerindian Pidgin; Athapaskan; Semitic 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2015 

Meeting Description:

During the last decade, extensive compilation of spontaneous speech corpora for several linguistic families has provided large amounts of data to linguistic research, often including the acoustic and prosodic dimension, which is fundamental for speech analysis. 

Speech corpora, therefore, represent a strong enhancement for the development of linguistic theory in several and diversified domains. However, the notion of sentence as unit of reference for spoken language analysis turns out to be strongly limiting as well as inconsistent with the available data. Different paradigms point at various possible ways to identify structural properties of spoken language, including its unit of reference. Starting from direct comparison of empirical studies on several languages and linguistic families, the workshop intends to advance in the comprehension of the unit of reference for spontaneous speech and to profit from the discussion of the results of multiple theoretical approaches in order to define a common ground.

Final Call for Papers:

IX LABLITA and IV LEEL International Workshop 

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil August 3-7 2015

Units of Reference for Spontaneous Speech Analysis and their correlation across languages

The IX LABLITA and IV LEEL International Workshop Organizing Committee is pleased to inform that the deadline for abstract submission to any of the thematic panels has been extended to April 30, 2015.

Thematic Panels:

Proposals focusing on any of the workshop languages are especially welcome (American English, Athabaskan Amerindian languages, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Hebrew and Semitic languages, Italian, Japanese, North America Amerindian languages, Russian).

Spoken Corpora in Brazil:
- Portuguese
- L2 teaching
- Amerindian languages
- Immigration languages
- Other corpora

Speech Segmentation

Illocutions and Information Structure

Phonetic Studies:
- Studies on Prosody
- Phonetics and Sociolinguistics

Speech Syntax

Lexicon and Semantics in Speech

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts (500 to 1000 words, in .pdf extension), to be written in English (recommended) or in Portuguese, should mention the chosen Thematic Panel and include Aims, Methodology and Results sections. Abstracts should be anonymous.

Abstract must be submitted through the online platform EasyAbs at the following link:

http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/LABLITA-LEEL2015

For additional information, please visit the conference website:

http://www.letras.ufmg.br/ixlablitaandivleel/

Or get in touch with the Organizing Committee: lablita.leel at gmail.com

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